Apomixis (asexual reproduction via seeds) has the potential to revolutionize sunflower breeding. In previous studies, we identified a diploid sunflower line (Rf975) that naturally exhibits extra ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 62, No. 5, Special Issue: Plant Reproductive Development: from Recombination to Seeds (2011), pp. 1699-1707 (9 pages) Mendel used hawkweeds and other plants to ...

Discover the latest articles and news in related subjects. Although reproductive cloning in mammals is a recent innovation 1, the cloning of crop plants has been done for centuries. Two asexual ...

Apomixis is a form of asexual reproduction that allows hybrid rice to propagate by seeds. Recently, a collaborative research team led by Professor Li Jiayang from the Institute of Genetics and ...

Apomixis is asexual reproduction without fertilization - developing or producing without sexual union. Apomixis is asexual reproduction without fertilization developing or producing without sexual ...

The development of synthetic apomixis enables the fixation of heterosis, which is a breakthrough that promises to transform conventional hybrid breeding strategies and trigger a new wave of green ...

Researchers from KeyGene and Wageningen University & Research (WUR), in collaboration with colleagues from Japan and New Zealand, have discovered a gene that will make it possible to produce seeds ...

North American Black-Fruited Hawthorns. I. Variation in Floral Construction, Breeding System Correlates, and Their Possible Evolutionary Significance in Crataegus sect. Douglasii Loudon ...

Technology is rapidly changing the way we cultivate rice and wheat, and India has the opportunity to lead the pack if we restore the attraction of fundamental research in plant sciences to our ...

An international team has succeeded in propagating a commercial hybrid rice strain as a clone through seeds with 95 percent efficiency. This could lower the cost of hybrid rice seed, making ...

An hour outside of Mexico City, the taxi turns off the main road, and the noise and bustle of the highway fade away. Past a steel gate and a white guardhouse, we enter the well-tended grounds of the ...

FOR animals, producing offspring usually involves the intricate complexities of sex. Many plants, however, opt for a simpler approach—they make their seeds without going to the bother of having them ...